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The museum is like a temple: the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum in Taiwan1
Abstract This article describes how a museum built by the Taiwanese Fo Guang Shan (FGS), one of the largest Buddhist groups on the island, triggers emotions and spirituality in its visitors. We explore how the conceptualization of materiality by the founder of FGS, Hsing Yun, is presented to visitors at the FGS Buddha Museum (FGS-BM) and how Humanistic Buddhism is materially expressed at the museum. By analysing the museum space and investigating visitors’ responses to the FGS-BM through ethnographic research, we describe how the FGS uses material artefacts, museum space and embodied activities to communicate Buddhist ideology to the laity, triggering some visitors’ emotions and leading some to describe the museum as being similar to a temple.
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Asian Anthropology seeks to bring interesting and exciting new anthropological research on Asia to a global audience. Until recently, anthropologists writing on a range of Asian topics in English but seeking a global audience have had to depend largely on Western-based journals to publish their works. Given the increasing number of indigenous anthropologists and anthropologists based in Asia, as well as the increasing interest in Asia among anthropologists everywhere, it is important to have an anthropology journal that is refereed on a global basis but that is editorially Asian-based. Asian Anthropology is editorially based in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, but welcomes contributions from anthropologists and anthropology-related scholars throughout the world with an interest in Asia, especially East Asia as well as Southeast and South Asia. While the language of the journal is English, we also seek original works translated into English, which will facilitate greater participation and scholarly exchange. The journal will provide a forum for anthropologists working on Asia, in the broadest sense of the term "Asia". We seek your general support through submissions, subscriptions, and comments.